Media Essay: Q4

Regarding digital technology, I used Final Edit for my film and radio trailer, Photoshop for my film poster and google for my questionnaire.

I liked using Final Edit because it is very detailed regarding the editing for continuity and rolling. The zoom in options and magnet are very useful for continuity and the roll on tool is useful for smooth match-on-action cutting. However, regarding effects, it was very restricted. There aren’t many fonts or effects for text as I wanted to use a similar font used for the introduction of Hugo Stiglitz; however it is not within Final Edit. The magnet tool was useful for dragging slips together and avoiding gaps and clips between scenes and cuts. Final Edit is also useful for layering text and videos on top of one another. The layering feature is limitless.

Final edit was also useful in helping me create a radio trailer with its layering features and audio effects which I also used within my film. There were many different effects such as echo and LPF’s and HPF’s which I used to make people sound like they were speaking over the phone. As radio trailers aren’t visual there needs to be plenty of dialogue so the listeners have plenty of knowledge on what the film could be about as most video trailers have no voice over dialogue at all. For this, I used AT&T Labs text-to-speech website. Although there’s a limited variety of voices and they aren’t exceptional quality regarding smoothness, there is no interference that would occur with a microphone, no feedback and no background noise and is therefore a clean voice over sound clear enough for anyone listening to the radio to here comfortably. It is easy to use and easy to download safely and to drag onto your inventory within Final Edit.

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Google was an excellent tool to use for my questionnaire. With it being on line, it is simple to use and easy for people to access and find. The spread sheet format is helpful to calculate your results and answers and are able to see them clearly.

I used photoshop to create my film poster. This software is useful for editing faces on posters as it possesses air-brush effects to smooth out pixelated images. It also has good layering effects so that you can include many images onto your poster without sharp edges or the poster looking too cluttered. It has unlimited effects and has photo editing effects for individual photos (especially for people) as well as mastering effects for an overall image.

 

 

We also used Microsoft Word to write up our scripts and used microscoft publisher to create our location assessments. Word was useful for scripts as it contains many diffeerent word layouts and is able to present it like a genuine script and is able to look professional. Publisher is more suitable for location risk assessments as you can place text anywhere on the page as well as photos as this software is commonly used for designing magazines.